Online

Inaugural Meeting of the Healthy Aging Affinity Group

4 October 2023 / Registration Closed

Format: Online meeting via videoconference (Zoom)

Purpose of meeting: To raise awareness about healthy aging and why philanthropy should get more involved.

Objectives of the meeting:

  • Understand healthy aging and identify what is at stake
  • Exchange information with key players and get inspired by great initiatives
  • Promote philanthropic engagement and strengthen national coordination of healthy aging funding
  • Discuss how other funding areas overlap and align with healthy aging

Tentative Agenda:

1:00-1:20 Welcome/Introductions – Jean-Marc Mangin, President & CEO, PFC

Welcome remarks and context setting.

1:20-2:20 Presentations

  • Kahir Lalji, Provincial Director, Government Relations & Government Programs, United Way B.C: What is happening in the sector and what are the needs?
  • Lindsay Goldman, CEO, Grantmakers in Aging: Current trends in the Aging Sector and their impact
  • Sandi Pelly, Director, Older Adults, The Waltons Trust: Why are we investing in the aging sector and what is our focus?

2:20-2:50 Remarks from Christy Moorhead, ED, Waltons Trust followed by a discussion with participants.

  • What we heard and where do we go from here?

2:50-3:00 Wrap-up, conclusion and next steps

Registration

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Jean-Marc Mangin

President & CEO

Jean-Marc has been President & CEO of Philanthropic Foundations Canada since 2019. He currently sits on the Government of Canada’s Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector, the Advisory Council for Carleton University’s Master of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership (MPNL) program, and the management committee of PhiLab, the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network.

Prior to PFC, Jean-Marc led a renewal process of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest national organization of Canadian researchers and scholars as its Executive Director.

He also has had a long career serving in international development with the UN, NGOs, and the Canadian Government in responding to global humanitarian disasters and development challenges. As CUSO Executive Director, he led a merger with VSO-Canada, and he was the first Executive Director of Global Call for Climate Action, a cross-sector civil society initiative supporting transformational change to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Born in Manitoba, raised in Quebec, and educated in BC and Ontario, he holds an MA in Political Sciences and Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto.